BELMONT — The Sisters of Mercy of North Carolina Foundation recently awarded grants totaling $1,087,700 to 25 non-profit organizations.
Grants were awarded to organizations in the areas of education, health care and social services, and award recipients spanned 11 counties: Avery, Buncombe, Catawba, Cleveland, Franklin, Gaston, Henderson, Mecklenburg, Union and Watauga counties in North Carolina, and York County, S.C.
The following organizations received awards:
Education
- Boys & Girls Club of Henderson County, Hendersonville: $40,000 for general operating support
- CrossRoads Corporation for Affordable Housing & Community Development, Charlotte: $25,000 for operating support to provide academic and social emotional supports to middle school students from Grier Heights and Alexander Graham Middle School
- United Way of Asheville & Buncombe County Inc.: $55,000 to provide salaries and benefits of Community Schools Coordinators
- Western Youth Network Inc., Boone: $35,000 to support the Mentoring Program
Health Care
- All Souls Counseling Center, Asheville: $45,000 to pay the contractual fees for licensed therapists
- Community Care Clinic of Franklin: $24,700 to provide a portion of the contractual salaries of a case manager and clinician
- Community Care Clinic Inc., Boone: $50,000 to provide a portion of the salary or contractual hours of a family nurse practitioner
- Florence Crittenton Services, Charlotte: $50,000 to fund salaries for Maternity Program staff
- York County First Steps, Rock Hill: $50,000 for salary, benefits and operating expenses of one nurse home visitor
- York County Free Clinic, Rock Hill: $45,000 to provide the salary of a nurse practitioner
Social Services
- Charlotte Center for Legal Advocacy, Charlotte: $50,000 for operating support contributing to staff salary, benefits and other costs
- Charlotte Family Housing: $50,000 in operating support contributing to the salaries of social workers
- Children’s Attention Home Inc., Rock Hill: $50,000 for the salary and benefits of a masters-degree level social worker
- Cleveland County Community Development Corp., Shelby: $35,000 for the salary of one FTE HUD-certified housing counselor
- Community Action Opportunities, Asheville: $40,000 to support the Life Works Self-Sufficiency Program
- Community Link, Charlotte: $60,000 to provide operating support for the Homeless to Housing and Asset Building programs
- Eastern Catawba Cooperative Christian Ministry Inc., Newton: $40,000 to fund the salary and benefits of a case manager
- International House of Metrolina, Charlotte: $50,000 to provide operating support contributing to Immigration Law Clinic staff salaries
- Loaves & Fishes, Charlotte: $48,000 for the salary of a social worker
- Our Voice Inc., Asheville: $35,000 to provide salary and benefit support for the Project WestNC program director
- Pat’s Place Child Advocacy Center, Charlotte: $55,000 for the salary of one FTE family advocate/forensic interviewer
- Rebuilding Together of Greater Charlotte Inc., Charlotte: $35,000 for emergency home repairs in the Lakeview neighborhood as a part of the Building A Healthy Neighborhood program
- Renaissance West Community Initiative, Charlotte: $50,000 for salary and benefits of a Life Navigator
- Turning Point Inc., Monroe: $45,000 to provide the salaries and benefits of a bilingual case manager and a domestic violence counselor
- With Friends, Inc., Gastonia: $25,000 for the salary of a youth worker
The Sisters of Mercy of North Carolina Foundation awards grants on behalf of the Institute of the Sisters of Mercy of the Americas. Mercy’s ministries are inspired by the legacy and commitment of their founder, Sister Catherine McAuley, to serve those who are poor, sick and uneducated.
Since 1996, the foundation has awarded 2,073 grants totaling more than $92.8 million to organizations assisting unserved or underserved populations in the areas of education, health care and social services.
— Anne Conradsen, Sisters of Mercy of North Carolina Foundation